Kassuns Reef

Today was a sad day. Woke up to discover that are new anemone was puking it's guts up. That's never a good sign. Moved him to our quarenteen tank, but he passed away. :(

Success finally, the other clown has joined his partner in the anemone. Now it will me intresting to see which will become the female, since their both the same size.

Yellow Skunk Clown started hosting this evening. The other Skunk Clown has yet to host, but should just be a matter of time now. :)

Picked up a pair of Yellow Skunk Clowns yesterday from Petco. As much as I rather not support large mass pet stores, They were on sale for a good price, and didn't show any signs of disease.

We have been very fortunate that all of our fish get along very well with one another, despite some warnings that are associated with the different species of fish. We already have a pair of False Percula Clowns. I made sure that the Clowns that I purchased were smaller than the Perc's in our tank and that the teperment was the same or more timid. There are alot of people that will swear up and down that only one pair or Clowns should be in 75 gal reef, however it has been my positive experence that 2 different species can be housed in a 75 gal reef tank or larger. With that said I would discourage maroon clowns and a few others that have a good history of aggression. With that said enjoy the pictures, hopefully they will host with in a weeks time or less.

Did my routine 12 gallon water change yesterday evening. Woke up this morning and the flowerpot has finally opened up. I know it's only 1/2 extended, but I'll take it. Also it helps that I moved it up higher so the Clowns leave it alone. :)

Clowns still refusing to host with carpet anemone and choose to bother our flower pot coral instead.

We were getting worried once our starfish headed behind our rock wall a few weeks ago. Today while moving some rock and doing a water change he has been sighted with a leg poking out one of the cracks in the rock wall. Whoo hoo :). Later on today I was able to coax him out with some Mysis shrimp. Hopefully he will stay out from behind the rock wall now.

Star polyps still have yet to reopen.

A quick pick of our Lawnmower Blenny with a full belly of hair algae.

Stopped by my LFS this evening and purchased a sand sifter to clean up our sand bed. He has been hard at work since being acclimated & released into the display tank this evening.

Swapped out our carpet anemone for a long tentacle anemone & added a six line wrasse. Initially the neon dotty back was very territorial, but after a few days she has left the wrasse alone. I took out the 250w metal halide since we have t5's now. So our electricity bill should drop and I'll have a light when I start up a simple propagation tank. Well here are some pictures of the new tank mates.

Just had my appendix out on Wednesday. So not to much new happening around the reef. Out blenny and hawk fish have setteled in quite well. My wife has her eye on a six line wrasse this payday. So I'll have some picks of that up next week.

- Kassun